Safety-razor.



S. C. HOWARD.

SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 23. 19131 Patented J an. 19, 1915.

Inventor D STATES- v SIDNEY O. HOWARD, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR T CARL E. BROWN, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

SAFETY-RAZOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

Application filed December 23, 1913. Serial No. 808,487.

, To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIDNEY C. HOWARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Safety-Razon'of which thefollowing is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a two-piece safety razor, and the primary object of the structure is to provide a device of this type in which, when a resilient, U-shaped handle is compressed, a guard carried by one arm of the handle will be moved away from the blade, thereby exposing more or less of the cutting edge of the blade and regulating the cut thereof.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this type, the handle of which is so constructed that the lather will not accumulate upon the outside of the handle.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this type in which the blade will be prevented from moving endwise with respect to the handle.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made Within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 is a side elevation of the razor; Fig. 2 is a side elevation, the razor being viewed from a point 90 remote from the view point in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a top plan of the complete razor; Fig. 4 is a top plan of the handle, the blade being removed; Fig. 5 is a plan of the blade; Fig. 6 is a side elevation, similar to Fig. 1, but illustrating the manner in which the structure is operated by varying the space existing between both of the guards and the cutting edges of the blade.

In carrying out the invention there is provided a handle which is denoted generally.

by the numeral '1,'the handle 1 preferably being fashioned from resilient strap metal and being of arched or U-shape, so as to include the arms 2 which converge toward each other to a point adjacent the upper sults..

ends of the arms, indicated by the reference character 3. From the point 3, the arms diverge as indicated at 4. The upper edges of the arms 2 are cut away to form lather receiving openings 5, the arms being broadened at their upper ends as shown at 6. At the outer corners of the arms, overhanging fingers 7 .are provided, and between the fingers 7 of each arm, the constituent mate rial of the arm is bent outwardly to form a toothed guard 8.

The blade is denoted by the numeral 9 and preferably is of rigid construction, although a flexible blade may be employed with fairly satisfactory but less efficient re- The cutting edges of the blade are indicated by the reference character 10 and the blade 9 adjacent the ends of the cutting edges 10 is notched so as to form shoulders 11 which are set back from the cutting edges 10. It is with these shoulders 11 that the fingers 7 of the handle are engaged, as will be understood readily from Figs. 1 and 6.

In the ordinary operation of the structure, the parts appear as shown in Fig. 1, the guards 8 lying up close against the under face of the blade 9. en a closer shave than ordinary is desired, the arms 2 are pressed together between the thumb and finger of the operator, as shown in Fig. 6. Then, the fingers 7 act as fulcra, permitting the arms 2 to swing or tilt upon the shoulders 11 of the blade 9, and by this operation, the guards 8 are swung downwardly, away from the cutting edges 10 of the blade 9, as shown in Fig. 6.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that while the device is in use, the cut thereof may be varied by simply pressing the arms 2 together.

If the device is to operate successfully, obviously, the blade 9 should not bend when the arms 2 are pressed together. With this end in view, the blade 9 preferably is made comparatively rigid, and, noting the point at which the reference character 12 is applied, it Will be observed that the arms 2 are spaced from the lower or under surface of the blade 9, so that when the arms 2 are pressed together, as shown in Fig. 6, the upper ends of the arms will not effect a humping of the blade and swing the cutting edges 10 of the blades downwardly, the parallelism between the cutting edges of the blade and the guards being maintained and 119 the ends in view being negatived if such a result takes place.

It is to be observed that the shoulders 11 in the blade 9' exercise two functions. First, they serve to prevent the blade from moving endwise with respect to the handle 1; and secondly, when the arms 2 are pressed together as shown in Fig. 6, they prevent the cutting edges 10 of the blade 9 from being injured by the grinding action of the fingers7.

Having thus described the invention, is claimed is v 1-. A safety razor comprising a blade; and a handle comprising resilient arms-having overhanging fingers engaging the blade pivotally, the said fingers being held spaced by the blade, one'arm having a guard located adjacent the blade, the arms being what spaced from the under surface of the blade adjacent the fingers, whereby when the arms are pressed together, the fingers will act as fulcra and effect a spacing of the guard from the blade.

2. A safety razor comprising a blade havmg shoulders which are set back from the edges of the blade; and a handle comprising resilient arms having overhanging fingers which engage the shoulders pivotally, inde pendently of the edges of the blade, one arm having a guard located adjacent the blade, the arms being spaced from the under surface of the blade adjacent the fingers, whereby when the arms are pressed together, the

fingers will act as fulcra and efiect a spacing of the guard from the blade.

3. A. safety razor comprising a rigid blade; a resilient handle comprising arms terminally fulcrumed on the blade for pivotal movement in engagement with the blade, when the arms are compressed; and a guard upon one arm movable away from the blade when the arms are compressed:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereunto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SIDNEY C. HOWARD. Witnesses H. J. Coon, W. E. KESSELRING. 

